Charlee78 Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Hi everyone! New member here in search of answer. I've been around hackintosh for a while now but I never really understood the process. I just followed guides made by awesome people and was lucky enough to get working systems 3 or 4 times now. For the past week I have been trying to install Catalina on this laptop (Dell Latitude E6440) and I am close to success except for the trackpad that is not working. I've found a couple of topics here about this but I cannot fix mine, maybe I just don't understand the process. I replaced my VoodooPS2Controller a couple of times with various ones but I still get a non working trackpad. Again, I think I missed some steps because I just replace the kext in Library/Extensions of my booting hard drive. I also wanted to include my EFI file here but it's too big even when zipped, if anyone have a suggestion on how I could include it... Oh and to anyone who would want to help me with this, thank you very much in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted May 15, 2022 Moderators Share Posted May 15, 2022 If you have Intel wifi / BT kext in the kexts folder, leave them out. Then you should be able to compress it to the require size. Also, in the EFI folder, just include the boot and OC or Clover folder, leave out any other boot folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlee78 Posted May 15, 2022 Author Share Posted May 15, 2022 Thanks for the answer! But just the kext folder in clover is 53Mb. Compressed is still too big, here's a picture to show you what I have: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted May 15, 2022 Moderators Share Posted May 15, 2022 You have way too much kextS, duplicate kexts and unnecessary kexts. KNOW YOUR HARDWARE is one important aspect to building a clean install For ethernet, you only need IntelMausi.kext, get rid of the rest..ie Realtek*, SmallTree*, Atheros*, AppleIntelE1000* ETC. Get rid of all the FakePCIID* Get rid of XHCI* Get rid of NullCPU* unless you don't care for power management Get rid of Sata* Get rid of GenericUSB* Get rid of the Backup folder //no idea what's in there and how big Get rid of AHCI* Have a backup incase it won't boot after removing all those kexts but I don't see that happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlee78 Posted May 15, 2022 Author Share Posted May 15, 2022 Ok, got rid of the scrap, booted right up. I know my hardware, it's the whole kexts programming, config plist that I don't understand. This EFI was built by someone else and was supposed to be working, guaranteed. I now realized it's not so great but it's the best I have right now. I have replaced the wifi card in the laptop with an Atheros one because I read that the intel one is not compatible so I did not remove that kext. This is another thing that is not working with the trackpad. With the unnecessary kexts removed I can now upload my kexts folder from clover kexts.zip And just in case this is my config plist but at that pointt I'm afraid to show it... config.plist.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted May 15, 2022 Moderators Share Posted May 15, 2022 Get rid of Whatvergreen, you have 2 versions Get rid of USBInjectAll, you have 2 versions Get rid of AppleGB, AtherosE2200Ethernet, AtherosL1cEthernet, IntelMausiEthernet The Atheros kexts are for Ethernet not wireless, so it's useless. Can't help you with Atheros Wifi since you didn't specify the full model. Look here for supported devices /unsupported device for patches and kexts Some support for Intel Wireless now, what model do you have? See here for kexts, go with the stable version For touchpad, replace your current VoodooPS2Controller.kext with this one VoodooPS2Controller.kext.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted May 15, 2022 Administrators Share Posted May 15, 2022 E6440's TouchPad works perfectly with Dr Hurt's driver. https://osxlatitude.com/forums/topic/8285-refined-alps-touchpad-driver/ Other kexts not required: NoTouchID, noVPAJpeg, Apple1GB, HibernationFixUp, HoRNDIS, 2nd USBInjctAll_v0.1.7, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlee78 Posted May 15, 2022 Author Share Posted May 15, 2022 Ok, you guys are fast Removed all the kexts you guys suggested and rebooted straight in, That is good! For the Atheros card: AR5B22 half mini PCIe (here's the link: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0875QJK83/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) For the original wifi card: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300, model # 633ANHMW I then copied the Voodoo kext supplied by Jake Lo, rebooted and still no trackpad. Then I moved to Hervé's post, installed ALPS kext but forgot to remove the other Voodoo and rebooted to a circle with diagonal bar (sorry I don't know the name of that sign) on Catalina drive. I did try the recovery drive and it seems to be reinstalling right now from apple. Funny thing, after rebooting from the recovery partition, the trackpad is working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Jake Lo Posted May 15, 2022 Moderators Share Posted May 15, 2022 FYI, no need to install kexts to Library/Extensions Just keep all in EFI/Clover/kexts/Other The atheros might require installing some patched kext or replace with older version of kext. See link above the Intel N 6300 is supported to some degree. https://openintelwireless.github.io/itlwm/Compat.html#dvm-iwn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlee78 Posted May 16, 2022 Author Share Posted May 16, 2022 With your experience, would you suggest the atheros or intel? ok, so I took the chance of booting into Catalina from my SSD one more time and it booted right up. No trackpad, no wifi. I didn't knew there was an option to install kexts to Library/Extensions, I really am a newbie at this and really don't understand the whole process. Since the beginning I just modify the kext folder from the EFI of the Catalina SSD. What should I do next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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